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… of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), is born in Suffolk, England. 1873 Sidney Percival Bunting , the son … newspaper “The International”. The ISL begins recruiting black workers such as Reuben Alfred Cetiwa, Johnny Gomes , … 1 September At the second national conference of the SA Federation of Trade Unions, held at Inchcape Hall, …

… as he is known to family, friends and comrades, was born in Doornfontein, Johannesburg, on 23 May 1929. He was the … his Junior Certificate at the Fred Clark Memorial School in Nance Field. He had to leave school in order to work and contribute to his family's income. His …

… Michael Kitso Dingake was born on 11 February 1928 in Bobonong Village, Bechuanaland Protectorate (now … secondary schooling at St Ansgars Institution, Roodepoort, in the then Union of South Africa from 1942 to 1943, and Pax College, in Pietersburg (Polokwane), in 1946. He obtained his senior …

… Rooha Variava was born in Pietersburg, South Africa on the 16 December 1958. She completed a BA degree in Philosophy and Arabic at the University of South Africa in 1979. Variava finished her Honours degree in Philosophy in …

… Sifiso Nkabinde was born in 1960 in Richmond, KwaZulu-Natal. His father was a policeman and a … primary school and secondary school, where he matriculated in 1977. Between 1978 and 1981 he trained as a teacher at … Call for peace in South Africa .  BBC  [Online] 31 January 1999. Available …

… Bhekumuzi Hyacinth Mseleku was born in Durban in 1955.  A self-taught pianist, saxophonist, guitarist, … the piano was chopped up to make firewood one winter. In 1975, Mseleku began his musical career when he played the … African jazz musician who escaped apartheid to settle in Britain from The Guardian [online] Available at: …

… Sekonyela was born in 1804 in Harrismith next to the Wilge River. He was born in the royal family and later became the Chief of the …

… John Gomas was born in Cape Town. He was a tailor by profession and a member of … Town branch of the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CP) in the late 1920s and was elected to the CPSA political bureau in 1933. He was the western Cape provincial secretary of the  …

… Patrick Holo is the son of Jo Holo, a pianist in the Á¢Â€Â˜Folk QuartetÁ¢'. As a child Holo built toys made … with long wires were one of his favourites. Holo grew up in Cape Town, and completed standard nine at Langabuya High … for Paarl Textiles until he became a full-time artist in 1974. In 1976, he joined the Community Arts Project in …

… He was born in 1924 near Mafeteng, Basutoland (now Lesotho), the son of an Anglican minister. In 1940, while a student at Lovedale, he concealed his age and enlisted in a non-European transport unit of the South African Army. …

… where he obtained a BA LLB degree with honours in 1962. World-renowned South African judge, Richard Goldstone has served in the most influential courts in the country as Judge of the Appellate Division of the …

… M. J. M. Williams Shope was born in 1919 in the Letaba district of the northern Transvaal, he became a … miner, and Railway and Harbours worker, he became involved in the African Laundry Workers' Union in the years after  …

… Ben Skosana was born in Sharpeville on 7 May 1947. He qualified as a teacher from … pursued further studies at St Francis Xavier University in Canada, where he received the diploma in Social Development. He also studied for a BSc and MSc in …

… as the National-minded Bloc. He was active as a young man in efforts to revive the ANC in the late 1930s, was chosen Transvaal provincial secretary in 1938, and later served several terms as ANC Transvaal …

… In November 1924, a fossilized child's skull was found in a quarry at Taung in the present-day Northwest Province. Professor Raymond Dart …

… Ben Skosana was born in Sharpeville on 7 May 1947. He qualified as a teacher from … pursued further studies at St Francis Xavier University in Canada, where he received the diploma in Social Development. He also studied for a BSc and MSc in …

… Mark Shope, SACTU General Secretary Mark Shope was born in 1919 in the Letaba district of the Northern Transvaal, he became a … miner, and Railway and Harbours worker, he became involved in the African Laundry Workers' Union in the years … to challenge: A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 Political Profiles 1882 ”“ …

… Florence Matomela was born on 1st of January ,in 1910 and worked as a teacher while raising five children. In 1950, angered by new influx control regulations in Port Elizabeth , she led a demonstration that ended in the … 30 July 2009]|Walker, C. (1991) Women and resistance in South Africa. 2nd Edition. David Phillip: Cape Town and …

… He was born in Pietersburg, Limpopo. He is a painter and sculptor. He … High School were he received art classes until Standard 9. In 1977 he left school after completing Standard 8. From 1978 … to the Co-ordinator of the Institute of Race Relations in Pietermaritzburg who motivated him to draw more pictures. …

… Stephen Lee was arrested in 1978 while completing his Master’s Degree in Sociology at the University of Cape Town. At the time he … African nationality as a result of his parents living in South Africa for 30 years. During 1974/75 he spent time in …

… Henry Eric Isaacs was born March 21 in 1949,He grew up in Raisethorpe,a peri-urban area of Pietermaritzburg.His … an Afrikaner,one grandmother Zulu,two aunts were Indian.In 1966 he completed high school and worked as a cleck and …

… Maggie Smith was born in 1930. She was a journalist and became the first woman news editor in Africa of the Sunday Times in Johannesburg in the 60s when the press was truly male …

… political activism traversed national liberation struggles in two countries, namely, India and South Africa. In 1936, faced with economic hardship, his family returned to India which was engaged in its own struggle for liberation. Babenia played an active … Soske, J. (2009). Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and …

… 8 August 1905 to David Chadwick Thompson and Kitty Brettle in Manchester, England. In 1907 the family left Manchester and moved to Pretoria … and upon completion went to Pretoria Boys High School. In 1923 Thompson left school and became an iron moulding …

… two sisters, Michel Assure and Melaney Adams. He grew up in Bonteheuwel, Cape Town. Bonteheuwel is a township on the Cape Flats and was predominantly working class. In the context of the Group Areas Act , it was a ‘coloured’ … area. This meant that many of the families that lived in this area had been forcibly removed from District Six or …

… Vernon Celliers Berrangé was born on 25 November 1900 in the Transvaal (now Gauteng). His lived and worked all his life in Johannesburg, having been admitted to the Bar in 1924. He was involved in the Springbok Legion a sort of an …

… Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather (PR) was born in Mauritius in 1895.  His grandfather settled in that country after emigrating from Tanjore in India in the …

… Kabila was born on 27 November 1939 into the Luba tribe in the Katanga Province in the Belgian Congo. In 1960 Kabila became a leader of a youth wing of an alliance …

… Helen Elizabeth Martins was born on 23 December 1897 in the Karoo village of Nieu Bethesda in the Eastern Cape. She was the youngest of six children and spent her childhood growing up in Nieu Bethesda. She went on to obtain a teacher's diploma …

… (Mangena apparently used her father's name for a surname. In all her correspondence she is referred to as 'Victoria … did train Africans as nurses Victoria Hospital, Lovedale in the Eastern Cape . She received her training under Dr Neil … to be trained as nurses. As soon as she had qualified in 1910, she came to the Transvaal where she worked at a …